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A professionally fabricated wide body chassis, finished in white metal primer. Front wishbone suspension is rose jointed and designed for inboard coilovers (coilovers not supplied - see my other auctions). Rear axle is a Ford Atlas, fitted with halfshafts but no differential or brakes and five link located using rose joints. Axle has brake caliper mounting plates fitted. Axle and suspension components finished in Hammerite. Front hubs are ex Ford Cortina Mk 4 with new bearings and brake discs. Ford Escort quick ratio (2:1) steering rack fitted. Fuel tank included and set of Sierra brake calipers and Ford brake drums and back plates that require overhaul. The chassis is designed to accommodate the Ford Crossflow engine which will sit well back in the chassis to improve balance and handling - near and offside mountings included. Mounted pedal box with brake bias bar fitted. Super light 'minilite' type alloy wheels size 13" x 8JJ fitted with Michelin and Dunlop tyres (lacquer flaking in places but otherwise very good condition). Buyer to collect

£750

I have been looking into it & have found it could run into thousands once i have added all the parts i will need.
Anyone have experience of building a kit car? (i wont need to sva it for competition use, trackdays may be a different matter)

Should i go for it or not? It is a locost chassis not a Westfield or Caterham.

I have been dreaming of one ever since I saw one in real life. The thing to me is just absolute beast like

Building it yourself sounds like even more fun, TG guys did it not long ago.

if you can afford it ide say do it tbh lol, it would be great fun and quite interesting to build it maybe as close to lfs spec as you can

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I have been looking into it & have found it could run into thousands once i have added all the parts i will need.
Anyone have experience of building a kit car? (i wont need to sva it for competition use, trackdays may be a different matter)

Should i go for it or not? It is a locost chassis not a Westfield or Caterham.

A racing car is born would probably be interesting viewing for you. It's based around a Westfield, but there will probably be quite a lot of good advice in there.

Whatever you do, make sure you lock up the diff for the ultimate real-life LFS experience. Put in a clutch made out of margarine too.

Did you buy it then?

Why not a LX6

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Why not a LX6

I'll raise you two cylinders.

If you know what you're doing, then why not?

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Why not a LX6

Pah.

LX8

Man, my dream is to build one of those with an all aluminum small displacement V8

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Pah.

LX8

Pah.

LX10

I always wanted to have a Lotus 7 replica... but I'm not sure if I'd try to build one. It would be a good way to learn about how every facet of a car works, though.

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pah.

Lx10 :d

i always wanted to have a lotus 7 replica... But i'm not sure if i'd try to build one. It would be a good way to learn about how every facet of a car works, though.

lx9000.

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lx9000.

oh wut u mean this?







25,000 liters and five and a half MILLION foot pounds of torque.

Quote from MadCat360 :

oh wut u mean this?







25,000 liters and five and a half MILLION foot pounds of torque.

That will be one mahousive Lotus Super7.

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Why not a LX6

Because i value my life! . Seriously tho my first attempt @ a self built car where i attached the calipers & plumbed in the brakes.
I'd rather have less power to start with, get the car properly setup so it stops & corners (well), then i will increase the size/output of the engine.

I'd say go for it. Friend of mine has a Super 7, only 130bhp, but ohmygod its fast.

Quote from MadCat360 :

oh wut u mean this?







25,000 liters and five and a half MILLION foot pounds of torque.

As long it doesn't mess up my power to weight ratio, yes, that's what I mean.

ive just noticed something about the LX4 engine specs.

Engine:
1.3 litre inline 4
Power:
105 kW (140bhp) @ 8212 rpm
Torque:
131 Nm (97 lbft) @ 6917 rpm

A 1.3 car engine with 140bhp?? Even a well tuned Suzuki swift engine would struggle to achieve 140bhp.

Quote from anttt69 :

A 1.3 car engine with 140bhp?? Even a well tuned Suzuki swift engine would struggle to achieve 140bhp.

Why not? My car has a 2.0 engine and 240hp.

Quote from anttt69 :

ive just noticed something about the LX4 engine specs.

Engine:
1.3 litre inline 4
Power:
105 kW (140bhp) @ 8212 rpm
Torque:
131 Nm (97 lbft) @ 6917 rpm

A 1.3 car engine with 140bhp?? Even a well tuned Suzuki swift engine would struggle to achieve 140bhp.

In the german hillclimb championship a 1.3 litre 16v inline 4 with less than 140 hp is regarded as underpowered.

They achieve up to 200 hp from an 1.3 carburetor engine.

http://www.polotreter.de/technik.htm

Individual throttle bodies on each cylinder can make wonders to your power output

Quote from anttt69 :

ive just noticed something about the LX4 engine specs.

Engine:
1.3 litre inline 4
Power:
105 kW (140bhp) @ 8212 rpm
Torque:
131 Nm (97 lbft) @ 6917 rpm

A 1.3 car engine with 140bhp?? Even a well tuned Suzuki swift engine would struggle to achieve 140bhp.

There's a Fiat 500 GT racer that has 360 HP out of it's 1.4. It's turboed, but I bet if you took the turbo off it'd still be over 200.

Quote from MadCat360 :

There's a Fiat 500 GT racer that has 360 HP out of it's 1.4. It's turboed, but I bet if you took the turbo off it'd still be over 200.

unless its quad turbo

Quote from MadCat360 :

There's a Fiat 500 GT racer that has 360 HP out of it's 1.4. It's turboed, but I bet if you took the turbo off it'd still be over 200.

People dont tend to put specialist engines in these things, they are almost always common easily available engines.

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A 1.3 car engine with 140bhp?? Even a well tuned Suzuki swift engine would struggle to achieve 140bhp.

Suzuki GSX1300R engine pulls out 194bhp according to wikipedia (for second generation, first generation hayabusa's engine pulls out 155-175bhp).